The platform officially confirmed they are overhauling these damaging reporting policies. I am overwhelmed knowing that my brother and so many others will finally be spared from this senseless harassment.
April 29, 2016
Final supporters
Facebook's reporting system has a lot of issues and as a tool that is used to protect users and reflect the community it protects, it is failing.
- A user can report something anonymously as many times as they want, enabling the possibility of using reporting to harass other users.
- Posts of young shirtless guys with long hair can get removed for nudity. Just stop. You're punishing a kid for having a secondary sex organ that literally everyone has, because he looks like he could have a vagina or identify as a female. Stop. How much longer until you realize that there's not a significant difference in nipples of people of different sexes or genders? What are you going to do about Facebook users that don't identify as a male or female? You'll allow almost a whole boob, suicide notes, bleeding self-harm wounds, and people violently killing and harming animals, but you're worried about how you could have stopped someone from seeing a nipple that might belong to a female.
- Which brings me to my third point, violence against animals is still violence. Sharing violence against animals rarely raises awareness to anything other than how much an animal bleeds when it dies. Violence against animals is as senseless, brutal, gorey, and traumatizing as violence against people.
- And lastly, disabling users from reviewing how Facebook has handled their report is counter-intuitive. The people reading these reviews need to be able to not take offense from angry users, they need to listen to them and ignore them when appropriate, not strip their ability to communicate.
I think the steps that need to be taken to resolve these problems are pretty straightforward.
- After reporting the same thing a certain amount of times alert the user that their anonymity will no longer be intact, allowing the user targeted by the utilization of the reporting tool for harassment can block the user OR allow users to block someone anonymously after they've inaccurately reported something repeatedly OR allow users the option to submit a review of the repeated inaccurate reports.
- Free the nipple. It's never hurt anyone.
- Treat violence against animals as seriously as violence against people, and take both more seriously.
- Always allow users to tell Facebook how they think their report has been handled.
Updates
March 29, 2016
Seeing this momentum grow proves that I am not the only one exhausted by these inconsistent and harmful policies. It feels like we are finally pulling back the curtain on how these broken systems impact real people every day.
Reached 100 supporters
March 29, 2016
37 Comments
Porn, and videos of dead people are somehow more appropriate than videos and posts that are clean and argumentative, that's not ok.
I completely agree with this! Ibhad a drawing of two people kissing and it got reported for nudity because some girl thought I was copying her drawing. So stupid!
Facebook never removes content that is clearly pornopgraphy, hate speech or gore, yet will remove innocent pictures of people's families. They need to change.
free the nipple!! realize true disturbances¬ just a picture you don't agree with!!
I had a video of my beautiful son, shirtless but his hair was over his chest and it was removed. I didn't even see the report for it. Yet I've reported sick images and porn on fb and they stay up. Get things straight Facebook!
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This is so ridiculous it's still a thing. Tired of my son's innocent photos removed yet gifs of porn run rampant.
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The platform officially confirmed they are overhauling these damaging reporting policies. I am overwhelmed knowing that my brother and so many others will finally be spared from this senseless harassment.
April 29, 2016
Final supporters
Facebook's reporting system has a lot of issues and as a tool that is used to protect users and reflect the community it protects, it is failing.
- A user can report something anonymously as many times as they want, enabling the possibility of using reporting to harass other users.
- Posts of young shirtless guys with long hair can get removed for nudity. Just stop. You're punishing a kid for having a secondary sex organ that literally everyone has, because he looks like he could have a vagina or identify as a female. Stop. How much longer until you realize that there's not a significant difference in nipples of people of different sexes or genders? What are you going to do about Facebook users that don't identify as a male or female? You'll allow almost a whole boob, suicide notes, bleeding self-harm wounds, and people violently killing and harming animals, but you're worried about how you could have stopped someone from seeing a nipple that might belong to a female.
- Which brings me to my third point, violence against animals is still violence. Sharing violence against animals rarely raises awareness to anything other than how much an animal bleeds when it dies. Violence against animals is as senseless, brutal, gorey, and traumatizing as violence against people.
- And lastly, disabling users from reviewing how Facebook has handled their report is counter-intuitive. The people reading these reviews need to be able to not take offense from angry users, they need to listen to them and ignore them when appropriate, not strip their ability to communicate.
I think the steps that need to be taken to resolve these problems are pretty straightforward.
- After reporting the same thing a certain amount of times alert the user that their anonymity will no longer be intact, allowing the user targeted by the utilization of the reporting tool for harassment can block the user OR allow users to block someone anonymously after they've inaccurately reported something repeatedly OR allow users the option to submit a review of the repeated inaccurate reports.
- Free the nipple. It's never hurt anyone.
- Treat violence against animals as seriously as violence against people, and take both more seriously.
- Always allow users to tell Facebook how they think their report has been handled.
Updates
March 29, 2016
Seeing this momentum grow proves that I am not the only one exhausted by these inconsistent and harmful policies. It feels like we are finally pulling back the curtain on how these broken systems impact real people every day.
Reached 100 supporters
March 29, 2016
37 Comments
Facebook reporting is currently a joke. So much that when reporting something, it's almost pointless. It needs so much revision!
Porn, and videos of dead people are somehow more appropriate than videos and posts that are clean and argumentative, that's not ok.
I completely agree with this! Ibhad a drawing of two people kissing and it got reported for nudity because some girl thought I was copying her drawing. So stupid!
Facebook never removes content that is clearly pornopgraphy, hate speech or gore, yet will remove innocent pictures of people's families. They need to change.
free the nipple!! realize true disturbances¬ just a picture you don't agree with!!
I had a video of my beautiful son, shirtless but his hair was over his chest and it was removed. I didn't even see the report for it. Yet I've reported sick images and porn on fb and they stay up. Get things straight Facebook!
....
This is so ridiculous it's still a thing. Tired of my son's innocent photos removed yet gifs of porn run rampant.
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Facebook reporting is currently a joke. So much that when reporting something, it's almost pointless. It needs so much revision!